UPDATE: The document, which had been posted at scribd, was deleted soon after I posted, but not before I copied it. Here, then, is the full text:

Because of their extensive, lifelong, union freeloading (Althouse, the breadwinner of their pathetic, sexual-frustration driven “family” is an AAUP freeloader, a public sector secondary education freeloader, a University of Michigan freeloader, a University of Colorado freeloader and, most disgustingly to us, a University of Wisconsin Freeloader), their movement freeloading (they have greatly enhanced their reputation and social currency both within her nauseating Tory brotherhood they represent and across the
￼￼￼￼￼￼￼￼￼￼￼￼￼￼￼￼￼￼￼￼￼￼￼
Op:countertroll Vs Althouse and Meade 3/18/11 11:41 AM
currency both within her nauseating Tory brotherhood they represent and across the
http://www.scribd.com/doc/50869881/Op-countertroll-Vs-Althouse-and-Meade Page 2 of 7
￼internet by wandering around Madison lying about all they see) their repeated lies and general commitment to irresponsible citizen-journalism (how dare they sneak around an ongoing citizen protest movement taking pictures of trash minutes before our volunteers clean it), their false claims to have infiltrated the movement despite the fact that as a decentralized, participatory and democratic movement #wiunion cannot be “infiltrated” and indeed welcomes the attention of hostile outside observers, their attempts to incite Tea Party Falangists to act on their sadistic and violent impulses against fourth grade teachers and their students, and their desecration of the statue of Hans Christian Heg Ann Althouse and Meade are hereby put on notice.

NOTICE – YOUR CITY OF MADISON PRIVILEGES HAVE BEEN REVOKED.

MADISON IS A #WIUNION CITY AND WE ARE MADISON.

Did you really think this could go on forever? That you could sit on the steps of our house, walk the streets of our city, lie about us to strangers, tell gun-toting rednecks from out of state and the Northwoods how depraved and deserving of punishment we are all while maintaining plausible deniability for any of the consequences that your actions might cause? Did you think you could fuck with HANS and get away with it?

This isn't a one way fight any more. We will take it from the internet right to [DELETED: My actual street address — parenthetical by Ann Althouse]. Do you have any idea where you live? Let us spell it out for you. We understand that you like to eat on the square. You like the Baked Potato at the Old Fashioned, do you? There were five of us in there last Tuesday. You like to eat at Fresco? We're in the Overture eating, serving, cooking, playing, and performing. At least twenty of us have worked for Food Fight. You like to fucking drink at FAIR TRADE do you? At FAIR TRADE? You are citizen-BANNED from Fair Trade. We will Walker you straight out of the place whenever you show up. We are at every coffee shop on State, open to close, all the time. We will hang up wanted posters of you everywhere you like to go. We will picket on public property as close to your house as we can every day.
We will harrass the ever loving shit out of you all the time. Campus is OCCUPIED. State street is OCCUPIED. The Square is OCCUPIED. Vilas, Schenk's Corners, Atwood, Willy Street – Occupied, Occupied, Occupied, Occupied. Did you really think it was all about the Capitol? Fuck the Capitol, we are the CITY.

We are hard-drinking, weed-smoking, rude, obnoxious, auto-didactic, uppity fucking TOWNIES. We know you hate us. We know you hate us because we ruin your imaginary, Men's Magazine, UW Admission's Pamphlet, Madison Magazine, Isthmus Arts vision of our City. You think that our town should be on perpetual vigil just in case you needalittlepeaceandquiet. YouthinkweshouldgodownquietwhileWalker economically rapes us because you want to lead a fucking tour group? Sorry babe, not gonna happen. And because you couldn't even show a modicum of fairness, integrity, or neutrality and because you had the iron fucking stones to try to pull this here, on OUR campus, in OUR city, in OUR state in OUR country (and that is about the only reason we have any grudging respect for you), now YOU are a target.

And guess what – we aren't SDS. We aren't fucking TAA. We aren't Timmy “olive branch” Cullen, we aren't yogi, granola-eating types you see at Willy Street or whatever. We are NOT radically nonviolent. We comply with the laws of the City because it is our City and we love it, but OH MY GOD do we hope Meade tries to get all tough with us. WE LOVE IT. LOVE IT. Just last night we saw a Jimmy John's worker who we know beat the ever loving shit out of some idiot drunk asshole who wouldn't be civil and polite in his workplace. We have the numbers and we don't back down from anyone. We all know each other. We know each other from Service Industry Night at the Orpheum, because we're regulars at the same coffee shops, restaurants and bars, we know each other from the co-ops, we know each other because we've had a million jobs each (and we all worked at CapTel at least once), because we live in every shitty townie house in ever-changing groups of 2 – 7 people, because we are young and horny and screw each other incessantly, because we're all on facebook, and because we aren't anti-social, life-denying, world-sterilizing pieces of human garbage like the two of you. WE WILL FUCK YOU UP. We will throw our baseballs in your lawn, you cranky old pieces of shit, and then we will come get them back. What are you gonna do? Shoot us? Get Wausau Tea Patriots to form an ad hoc militia on your front lawn? That would be fucking HILAROUS to us. You could get to know the assholes on your side in real fucking life instead of sponging off the civil society we provide for you every single day you draw breath.

Pay your dues or action will be taken. The action will be legal, peaceful, and nonviolent (on our end anyway – if you want to do it the other way fine with us. Meade is a tough guy on LGM or whatever but he's a chickenshit IRL. We dare you buddy. Double dog dare you.) but it will also be swift, decisive, direct, personal and effective.

You are getting fat on union money. You are getting fat on our tax money. You are getting fat on an undeserved bully pulpit that you got from credibility won from the hard struggles of public sector workers, university professors and unions throughout history, and that increased dramatically in scope due to OUR MOVEMENT. So PAY YOUR DUES. Wedemand:

1) Because you have taken the words from our mouth - A complete recantation of all lies about #wiunion (not lies in leagalese – lies in the commonsense moral
Op:countertroll Vs Althouse and Meade 3/18/11 11:41 AM
http://www.scribd.com/doc/50869881/Op-countertroll-Vs-Althouse-and-Meade Page 3 of 7
definition of the word. Choose an ethical system that you believe is fair, run it by us, and we will let you know which posts violate it) posted on your personal blog, in all comments sections of all other blogs, on your flickr account and your youtube account, spoken in podcasts or on bloggingheads, or said out loud anywhere in Madison. Take it all back. We don't trust you, so we will draft a statement for you.

2) Because you have taken the bread from our table – a 5,000 dollar donation (each) in your own names and made public to the Industrial Workers of the World general fund, the Bradley Manning Defense Fund, the Recall Alberta Darling effort, a group of our choosing that advocates for the pro-democracy movements in #libya, #algeria, #iran or in Pizza for the Protesters (we prefer Ian's, the Nickel or Roman Candle, but any friendly place will do – if you attempt to order us shitty
pizza or pizza from an unfriendly restaurant we will eat it and consider are demands still unmet).

3) Because you have attempted to take our very safety and indeed our lives, because you have incited violence against us and above all because you have proven yourselves inadequate to the grave and solemn responsibilites of Citizen- Journalism – Your silence. You want to make everyone shut the fuck up? Be the change you seek. We demand ZERO more posts about us, ever. We demand the admin pw for all of your shit to be publicly posted on a movement friendly facebook group or 4chan. We demand to be allowed to vet everything you post before you post it and edit it for any and all lies related to #wiunion, #wewarewi, #union, #usuncut #opesr #wikileaks #solidarity and #allthatisgoodandholyonthisearth. We demand that you Delete Fucking Everything.

4) You will never, ever, ever, ever in your motherfucking life come within 20 feet of the statue of Hans Christian Heg. Althouse, you are a job-hopping carpetbagger from New England. Meade, you are an obnoxious right-to-work Zombie from southern Ohio who only lives here because its apparently the only place in the world you can get laid. Heg is OURS. We are WISCONSIN. You don't fucking touch Hans Christian. Ever. And that goes double for the Lady on the other side.

Package 2: Move the Fuck out of Our City

Get out, and stay out. Far out. Meade - You ain't no man for this city. We're out on the streets every day, all day. The 77 square is not for y'all. You say we're from out of state? Bullshit. You're from fucking out of state. We'll show you just how fucking Madison we are. Althouse, we will ruin your goddamn career, your comfort, your pocketbook, your sense of safety and wellbeing, and your life.

And don't try to pull up at another one of our cities either. Don't like your AAUP card? Turn it in. If you want to carry water for Koch and the Chamber, they can foot the fucking bill for it. Get a job on the Tea speaking circuit or with AEI or some other garbage think-tank in DC or Claremont or whatevs. We have friends everywhere. All land-grant University towns are occupied. All major cities are occupied. Everywhere with a critical mass of smart, uppity people is Occupied. If you want to advocate for national internetless, right-to-work rural fortress state hell with no transit in or out, you can live in it. If you want to defend Falangist Michigan, move to Pontiac. If you want to make us all work for Olive Garden you can fucking eat there. Why don't YOU go shop at Wal-Mart. Because the shit you wear looks like it comes from places like Jazzman and Bop and we work there too and we aren't having it any more. No more free rides, baby.

If you have not acceded to our demands within a week, it is ON LIKE DONKEY KONG. WE AREN'T GOING ANYWHERE. EVER. WE LIVE HERE 100% OF THE FUCKING TIME. YOU CAN'T BAN MADISON FROM LIVING IN MADISON, BUT WE CAN SURE AS SHIT BAN YOU. WHO ARE YOU GONNA CALL? COPS FOR LABOR? THE CHICKENSHIT TEA ASSWIPES WHO ARE SCARED SHITLESS OF THE TEAMSTERS TRUCKS? THE NATIONAL GUARD? SCOTT WALKER? NO ONE IS GOING TO COME AND CRACK DOWN ON US FOR YOU. THERE IS NO CAVALRY. ITS US VS YOU ON THE STREETS OF THE CITY GOING AS FAR AS IT HAS TO GO UNTIL A) WE WIN OR B) DOOMSDAY.

It's this sort of arrogance that led to the British public supporting Margaret Thatcher. I read somewhere how unionized trash collectors would knock on doors at Christmas and if not tipped by those they were to serve, garbage would be spilled in yards or worse.

I wouldn’t worry Meade house…as they are weed-smokin’ hard-f#ck’n people, I figure by this afternoon they’ll have something else to do, like bang some skank, score some sensimilla, go hang out and play some X-box….Next week someone will ask them about their boycott of Meadehouse and they’ll all be, “Oh yeah right doood, we WERE gonna do that weren’t we?”

Either that or some bright spark realized, “Hey if I make some Lame-@rsed threat to Meadehouse I can get onto the Web. I’ll be more famous than ‘J’!”-Not that the latter is saying much, mind you.

In many states what was written at the site you linked would be considered a "terrorist threat", good for at least a misdemeanor if not felony charge. Perhaps a little wake-up call from the cops would be a good thing (that is, if you can find one that isn't a union lackey).

You know, I'm sorry, I don't want to minimize or diminish this. But any threat that contains the phrase "If you have not acceded to our demands within a week, it is ON LIKE DONKEY KONG" simply cannot be taken seriously.

Oh, the idiots who wrote it may think they mean it. But honestly, "ON LIKE DONKEY KONG"?? I'm sorry, I'm reduced to gales of laughter at that.

This is either a troll by someone who's actually not serious (i.e. trying to get a reaction; a classic "trolling", in other words), or just a lame college kid or two who's blowing off steam but would wilt like a flower if face to face with anyone. I wouldn't blow it off entirely, but at the same time I wouldn't consider this to be any more threatening than a howling mad chihuahua. It's a screed. And quite likely a deliberate trolling. That's likely all it is.

How long before we get a video of Meade at the Heg statue? I estimate by 6pm CDT.I would also like to see a video of our intrepid heros walking into each of those hippy coffee shops, daring those pinkos to say anything to the camera. Stay strong althouse/Meade!

It is of course a potentially serious thing. They don't have much more room to escalate before they get to some really nasty stuff. The simple civil disobedience barrier was crossed long ago and nobody in WI seems willing to draw a new line. They're not going to stop on their own.

This is either a troll by someone who's actually not serious (i.e. trying to get a reaction; a classic "trolling", in other words), or just a lame college kid or two who's blowing off steam but would wilt like a flower if face to face with anyone.

I suspect it's someone who formerly drove a salt truck, and now finds himself with unexpected time on his hands.

This renders me nearly speechless. What can one say? Or, more to the point, what could one possibly add to this that would make it any clearer which side in this argument holds the high ground? Hint: not Jim Shankman.

P.S. Meade-- if I were you I would change my handle to "Meade" and wear the quotation marks as badges of honor.

The Bradley Manning Defense Fund? Industrial Workers of the World? This screed lacks the eloquence of the Communist Manifesto, but still I'm sure it will one day be in the Smithsonian under glass, right next to Dorothy Parker's hangover.

I think the most appealing thing about the unions is that these are just, you know, good people—real salt-of-the-earth wouldn't-hurt-a-fly types. Their calm maturity and patient responses to criticism certainly engenders a strong instinct to work with them in like manner, and not at all to turn the fire hoses on them.

Still, while I appreciate the care that has gone into his satire of an anonymous threatening letter, I'm saddened that Prof. Leiter would resort to gutter idiom like "double dog dare" and "it is ON LIKE DONKEY KONG."

DONKEY KONG is a wonderful amusement. Madisen is a den of loons and has been for 50 years. Just what would you really expect? Civility from the Left? Manners from unions? How's that tooth fairy thing going?

I read the whole thing, and it could be half-real/half-self-conscious-overstatement/half-fake or any combination thereof. They did not, to the best of my knowledge, demand that we "assimilate", so that's a plus.

They are goin to protest you, and you and Meade are going to go interview the protesters and blog about it, and then someone is going to protest you for that coverage and you will cover this protests and...

Good grieve, that's the new "civility?" Wow! So, now it's down to following Obama's example of civility, which is what they'll practice on you. It's not fair to respond in kind as they'll shout "Shame on You" as they trash everything in sight.

My strongest suggestion is to prepare for an aggressive attack from these clowns except that the local cops will not be available to assist you. Well, that might be a bit strong since they'll come afterward to see if there are survivors.

I'd also suggest that you and Meade either prepare to knock down any of those bullies with your best efforts or leave for a more welcoming environment. Because if it's coming down to what you're experiencing since those fools should realize, they'll suffer much more in the end.

It'll take a while for our side to ramp up but once that happens, those union thugs are history. However, that's not really what they want!

Sure, the bulk of the screed was aimed towards Ann; the fashionable boutiques she frequents to buy her clothes was an especially chilling mention, as much as the Jimmy John's reference raised a wry smile. Hey, I eat there too! Albeit 2,000 miles away.

But it was to Meade that their unadulterated anger was truly aimed. They LOATHE Meade. They would harm him in a second, so Meade, FBI. Seriously. Not quakingly in fear, but out of an abundance of precaution.

But, can I ask you guys a question?

Where do these unions thugs, who are quite different from innocent rank-and-file union workers, get their anger from?

Because they are cauldrons of hate.

I don't have even 1,000th of their hate inside me, not because I am so good, but because I am not wired that way.

Jesus Mary and Joseph, may this be only blarney and blather. Keep Ann and Meade safe all their days.

Well, it is in his scribd channel, and given the context—its harmony with his persona and other posted documents—that counts as a presumptive claim to authorship, no? Jim Shankman, of Madison, WI. This winner is on facebook, and if the remedy for bad speech is no longer more speech, at least one court has held that process can be served on facebook.

I used to get silly letters/notes like this from students before I retired from university teaching. I averaged one of these a year. I never knew who sent them but they do give you pause. You quickly realize these blokes see the world in a totally different and freaky way than you. I could never understand why whoever sent the thing could get so worked up over having to repeat a course they clearly probably failed or got a lower mark than they thought they deserved. I had a foreign student stalker one year who tried to get me to change his grade. I'd come home to find him waiting outside my home. Nice guy I think but seriously warped to some extent.

So how are you feeling about progressives now? Seriously, how have your thoughts and feelings changed now that you have been to a tea party and seen what you have seen? I would be eager to hear your reactions Althouse.

"They have no fucking idea that 40 years ago I was a hipster living in San Francisco, or that I did my time in the Village. Makes you shake your head in wonder."

shoutingthomas (and Dust Bunny Queen): My guess is that 40 years ago, when you were both "doing your time" in the village (or San Francisco), you were equally oblivious to the fact that some of the people you were scornful of had "done their time" 40 years earlier, perhaps on the Left Bank in Paris. Am I wrong?

Rumpletweezer said...Althouse, Meade, you stand accused of having asked reasonable questions and posting unedited video that shows people to have acted in uncivilized and selfish ways. How do you plead?

I read somewhere how unionized trash collectors would knock on doors at Christmas and if not tipped by those they were to serve, garbage would be spilled in yards or worse.

Well cited. You don't want to know the stranglehold unions had on the North, and beyond.

Unions are like any machine -- basically protection rackets. So long as you do what they tell you to do (support in the form of money), they won't harm you.

Whether it's a political Machine, who put their people in polling stations to make sure you voted THEIR way (Democrat Bostonians did it in the 1800s, amongst others), or the Vikings charging Britons Danegeld not to invade their shores, or Mafiosi who come calling for their cut of the pizza proceeds, it's all the same.

Then unions wonder why they are in decline all over the world. If they left it at trying to work for the working man, even I would support them.

But people cannot stand the tactics they use, or the hate that motivates them.

You guys are welcome in real Wisconsin any old time. Leave Madison to the nutbags. Without people like you there to care they will have it completely trashed in no time...just look how long it took them to trash the most beautiful capitol building in the country.

I agree with the earlier poster though that after a couple jays a wonder roast chicken and a tender moment with rosie and her 5 sisters, they won't even remember writing this.

Oh, and I find it interesting that they specifically mention the Heg statue. Today I was down at the Capitol and someone had written all over the base of it with chalk--things like "Save me" and "FREEDOM!". They just won't leave that statue alone.

Well of course this is over the line, but I do think it is very clear by your actions these past several weeks which side you butter your bread, so I can understand why you'd become the target of their ire. I'd love to hear a response to the the freeloader observations.

you were equally oblivious to the fact that some of the people you were scornful of had "done their time" 40 years earlier, perhaps on the Left Bank in Paris. Am I wrong?

Actually, you are wrong, at least in my case. My parents and their friends were very "bohemian" and participated in the underground culture of the late 40's early 60's, with all that it entailed. (use your imagination) There was no rebellion on my part in the 60's from my parents since they were still a part of 'the culture' and there was no big generation/gap/divide to rebel against.

I wasn't scornful of the older generation in the least. Personally I was annoyed by and scornful of the Hippies, even though I was immersed in the 'scene' at the time, because most of them were just a bunch of pretentious fake poseurs. Fakes and wannabes. Fake sincerity. Putting on a show for their friends and just to spite their parents.

Just like the scum today who think that protesting is fun and cool with no understanding of what it all really means.

Based on personal experience, your best bet is the 32 ounce Louieville slugger. I prefer the Reggie Jackson model but I bet Meade has a Vada Pinson one in with his stuff.

Remember to use the meaty part of the head in your swing. Oh and go for the knees. A good shot in the kneecap gets them down and you can casually stomp their fingers by "accident" so they won't be typing anytime soon. Stay away from head shots because they are hard to modulate and anything in the chest area is problematic because you can stop the heart by accident that way.

Seven, I have met groups of people who were political activists during my Oxford days. Anarchists, Trotskyites, Louis Althusser acolytes, the lot.

Think of all-night benders where they bounce ideas off of each other, yelling "Oh eff yeah, put that in, that's a good one!", making sure it sounds menacing with a veneer of sophistication to differentiate them from the hordes of illiterate rabble they purport to want to help. Most of them became journalists, afterwards.

I will stake my life that whomever wrote this, or helped to write this, is exactly this kind of person.

I expect that Mr. Shankman is projecting when he cricizes Meade as being supported by Althouse. According to his Facebook page, it seems he has no job, but volunteers alot for unions, while he is "in a relationship" with a woman named Anna Ogden-Nussbaum whose LinkedIn profile lists "Libraries and Research" in Madison, WI as her career field.

"Hundreds of UAW members at Ford's Michigan Assembly Plant booed Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder as he entered a celebration at a Ford plant today in Wayne.

The workers were wearing red shirts in solidarity with members of public unions in Wisconsin and across the Midwest who perceive that their collective bargaining rights are under attack by Republican governors."

8.1 use the Scribd Platform for any purposes other than to disseminate or receive original or appropriately licensed content and/or to access the Scribd Platform as such services are offered by Scribd;

8.3 post, upload, or distribute any defamatory, libelous, or inaccurate User Content or other content;

8.4 post, upload, or distribute any User Content or other content that is unlawful or that a reasonable person could deem to be objectionable, offensive, indecent, pornographic, invasive of another’s privacy, harassing, threatening, embarrassing, distressing, vulgar, hateful, racially or ethnically offensive, or otherwise inappropriate;

8.5 impersonate any person or entity, falsely claim an affiliation with any person or entity, or access the Scribd Platform accounts of others without permission, forge another persons’ digital signature, misrepresent the source, identity, or content of information transmitted via the Scribd Platform, or perform any other similar fraudulent activity;

That last clause means if this isn't Jim Shanklin's post (or posted with his permission), then someone has violated the terms by pretending to be him.

Although this 'letter' or screed sounds really unhinged and could be serious... (Not joking about the guns)....probably the more serious threat to Althouse and Meade will be from her colleagues at the University and from the Administration who will try to do everything they can to ruin her career and reputation and drive her from her position.

IntroductionI'm in the business of giving tax dodgers, political gangsters, and union-busting thugs the businessBragging rightsOccupied the Capitol when you could still sleep on the Fourth Floor.OccupationI defend the City of Madison, the State of Wisconsin, the United States of America, the Constitutions and legitimate laws thereof, and the inalienable right of labor to bargain collectively

From Jim Shankman's status update, linked to by Mike. The mention of Tea Party Falangists made me smile.

And here is what he wrote one day ago:

"Jim Shankman

Imagine the Tea Party diehards/minutemen/white supremacist groups but aesthetically literate and with cool uniforms. - 1 day ago

'Falange Española de las J.O.N.S. (better known as Falange or Phalange; full name Falange Española de las Juntas de Ofensiva Nacional Sindicalista) is the name assigned to several political movements and parties dating from the 1930s, most particularly the original fascist movement in Spain. The word [...]'"

Probably the more serious threat to Althouse and Meade will be from her colleagues at the University and from the Administration who will try to do everything they can to ruin her career and reputation and drive her from her position.

Ann thinks I was bullshitting and could be ignored, but, I swear, I tried to tell her,...

Although this 'letter' or screed sounds really unhinged and could be serious... (Not joking about the guns)....probably the more serious threat to Althouse and Meade will be from her colleagues at the University and from the Administration who will try to do everything they can to ruin her career and reputation and drive her from her position.

Because having voted for Dubya didn't do it for 'em?

You know what -- Althouse will get a gig at Fox and say goodbye to Madison. You watch.

Screw Godwin's Law, the events of the past few weeks are getting more and more scary. We want to party like it's 1773. They want to party like it's 1938. Jonah Goldberg is a prophet. (Although, it really didn't take that much of a look into the future to see where the left was headed.)

Please do report this and go beyond the local police. We could have a criminal civil rights case here.

What is stalking?A person stalks a victim in Wisconsin when s/he engages in a “course of conduct” that causes the victim to experience serious emotional distress or to fear bodily injury or death of her/himself, to a family member, or to a member of his/her household. If the stalker knew or should have known that at least one of the stalking actswould cause the victim to experience this distress or fear, the stalker may be charged. In most instances, a course of conduct means two or more acts carried out over any period of time. However, if a person had previously been convicted of a domestic abuse offense or a sexual assault offense against the same victim, the person may be charged with stalking after only one stalking act against the victim.In Wisconsin, stalking acts include but are not limited to:• Maintaining a visual or physical proximity to the victim.• Approaching or confronting the victim.• Appearing at the victim’s workplace or contacting coworkers or employers of the victim.• Appearing at the victim’s home or contacting the victim’s neighbors.• Entering property owned, leased, or occupied by the victim.• Contacting the victim by telephone repeatedly or continuously causing the victim’s (or another’s) telephone to ring, whether or not a conversation ensues.• Photographing, videotaping, audiotaping, or, by other electronic means, monitoring/recording thevictim’s activities, regardless of where the monitoring takes place.• Sending material by any means to the victim or to the victim’s family, member of the victim’s household, employer, coworker, or friend in order to obtain information about, disseminate information about, or communicate with the victim.• Placing an object on or delivering an object to property owned, leased, or occupied by the victim.• Delivering objects to certain others with the intent of delivery to the victim or placing objects on property owned, leased, or occupied by certain others with intent that it be delivered to the victim.• Causing a person to engage in any of the acts described in subds. 1. to 9.

Criminal Harassment, Wis. Stat. sec. 947.013, is different than stalking but may be charged in some stalking situations. The crime of harassment is also different from the harassment restraining order, which is a civil protective remedy for victims of harassment.The crime of harassment occurs when a person engages in a course of conduct or certain acts against a victim.Harassment occurs whenever a person, with the intent to “harass or intimidate” the victim, either:• “Strikes, shoves, kicks or otherwise subjects the person to physical contact or attempts or threatens to do the same,” or• “Engages in a course of conduct or repeatedly commits acts which harass or intimidate the person and which serve no legitimate pupose.”

Now that the mask of civility has dropped, one of the weird things is how many leftists are willing to threaten people on social media, where it is generally trivially easy to figure out their real identities.

Ann thinks I was bullshitting and could be ignored, but, I swear, I tried to tell her,...

I know.

When you have lived most of your life in a cosy sheltered environment where nothing bad happens to YOU, it is hard for some people to take things (threats like these) seriously and easy to doubt the evil that people can do and the evil that some people just are. You think that all those bad things are just on the television or you read about them in the papers and happen to other people....but ....they are real.

It's because of jerkoffs like this that I proudly display my Walker sign in my dorm window and don't hide the fact that I'm a Republican intern when I walk through the capitol. I'm not scared of the Teamster trucks, I've deliberately walked down the middle of the drum lines to split them in half, in my time at the capitol I've had angry union members come into the office ready to scream and I've stood them down, I've had some of my former teachers look at me with a look of disbelief while I give them a smile and a wink as I walk into my office, the last thing that scares me is a man with obvious anger problems and delusions of power (I don't remember electing him to speak for the city) hiding behind a keyboard while his hyphenated partner cooks a tofu based dish.

"Probably the more serious threat to Althouse and Meade will be from her colleagues at the University and from the Administration who will try to do everything they can to ruin her career and reputation and drive her from her position."

If anything in this area were to start happening, it would boost my reputation (the reputation I have now). There would be all sorts of people who would support me, vigorously, such as CFAR, here on campus. I would be a cause celebre. I do not feel vulnerable there. Even if all my colleagues at the Law School turned on me, the worst that could happen is that I would retire, with a nice pension.

To all those advising Meade and Professor Althouse... I share your good wishes, but I suspect they're waaaaaay ahead of you. They're no dummies. I suspect most of your suggestions were implemented before this post was ever written.

I kinda expect that they shored up their defenses first, and this post is their return volley. Again, you can't threaten bloggers (popular bloggers, especially) because your threats immediately give them new material, and will only make you look bad.

What's weird to me is that he seems to have no privacy options used for his Facebook page. You can read posts on just about everything and find out a lot about him. And he posts about writing this letter.

Which is sad really. A young guy in search of an identity, but finding only an ideology.

"Who of the saints would not shudder to be merry with such persons or to enjoy a meal with them? They do not know, the wretches, that what they offer their friends and sons as food is deadly poison, just as Eve did not understand that it was death she gave to her husband. So are all that do evil: they work death as their eternal punishment."~ St. Patrick, Letter to Coroticus

If anything in this area were to start happening, it would boost my reputation (the reputation I have now). There would be all sorts of people who would support me, vigorously, such as CFAR, here on campus. I would be a cause celebre. I do not feel vulnerable there. Even if all my colleagues at the Law School turned on me, the worst that could happen is that I would retire, with a nice pension.

Well, glad to hear that you feel that way and have a good attitude about it.

I have a friend whose son was a PHD at Berkeley (History I believe) and who is a conservative and independant thinker. He has had nothing but a bad time from the Administration and blackballing from his colleagues.

Still. Be careful. There are crazy people out there and you have become a 'known' target.

Early on I was going to comment that like Tucson we can't jump to conclusion that an isolated nut is representative of anything.

This:

IntroductionI'm in the business of giving tax dodgers, political gangsters, and union-busting thugs the businessBragging rightsOccupied the Capitol when you could still sleep on the Fourth Floor.OccupationI defend the City of Madison, the State of Wisconsin, the United States of America, the Constitutions and legitimate laws thereof, and the inalienable right of labor to bargain collectively

certainly ends that suggestion.

Now waiting for someone on "the other side" to publicly disavow such tactics

I don't live in WI, but this really ticks me off. If you need help with these "Peaceful" Progressives, we will be there for you. I can't believe the outright hatred of the Left, which is why they get away with it all the time. Let us know, we'll be there.

It is long past time for any reasonable liberals and Democrats to take a stand against the thugs in their midst. This is despicable. Unless and until the leftys begin condemning these attempts at intimidation, it is clear that they are in the any-means-necessary camp, and are content to let these goons do their dirty work.